Julia Kaufman is a policy researcher at the RAND Corporation and Sarah Ryan is a researcher in the Research, Evaluation and Policy unit at the Education Development Center. Co-authors on this research article also include Joel Greenhouse, Ruicong She and Judy Shi. Altogether, their co-authored article was published in Community College Journal of Research and Practice and is titled “The effectiveness of blended online learning courses at the community college level.”
The abstract and article can be read at http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10668926.2015.1044584
The original report for this study can be read at http://www.hewlett.org/library/open-learning-initiative-courses-community-colleges-evidence-use-and-effectiveness